WINDINGS AND GUIDES 165 



of the black silk, and these, beginning with the three 

 bands grouped at the rod-butt, which are a scant one- 

 eighth inch wide, should gradually diminish in width 

 all the way to the rod's tip, where they may consist 

 of only four or five turns of thread. When making 

 top-joints in duplicate or triplicate, it is a good plan 

 to distinguish them by special arrangements of bands 

 at their tips; you then can always identify the par- 

 ticular one in use. 



After the positions of the guides are located, 

 bands of black silk are wound around the joint, over 

 the spiral-winding at each point where the guide- 

 wrapping will come, and in such a way that each solid 

 guide-wrapping of green will be set off at its ends 

 with a narrow black border. When once these are 

 in place, and in addition to the rest of the joint have 

 had their preliminary coat of varnish to hold the 

 silk here, the spiral-winding is cut and unwound be- 

 tween them at each guide-site; the guides then are 

 bound on close against the wood, when their wrap- 

 pings may receive a first coat of varnish. 



Note that a guide is placed at each ferrule-connec- 

 tion, at its lower and stronger side. Some further 

 detail is called for concerning the guide-windings at 

 the ferrules and the ferrule-windings themselves, and 

 reference to the accompanying diagram will mate- 

 rially aid in understanding about this. Before start- 

 ing to wind on a guide at the end of a joint or to 

 wrap a ferrule, first we place a smooth, permanent 



